Over the years I have set MANY of Julia’s brilliant poems. She is a wonderful collaborator, and I’ve also commissioned several poems from her for specific projects. Her language is perfect for songs– always direct and honest.
One of my favorite settings of her poetry is my song cycle Kiss.
Jocelyn
Julia Klatt Singer is a painter and writer. She is co-author of Twelve Branches: Stories from St. Paul, (Coffee House Press), author of In the Dreamed of Places, (Naissance Press), A Tangled Path to Heaven, Untranslatable, (North Star Press), and Elemental (Prolific Press). Audio poems from Elemental are at OpenKim, as the element Sp (the element of surprise) The Relative Nature of Things, (North+East Press) and The Paint Factory Years (Between the Highway Press). She’s co-written numerous songs with composers Craig Carnahan, Jocelyn Hagen, and Tim Takach. Ms. Singer is the poet in residence at Grace Neighborhood Nursery School where she writes/scribes poems for 3-, 4- and 5-year-olds. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
